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OpenStack Summit

Vancouver, British Columbia

May 18 - 22, 2015

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Cloud services based on OpenStack® software, in particular those for enterprise applications, require a robust storage infrastructure that is efficient, protected, and available. NetApp® storage integration with OpenStack makes deployment of cloud services simpler, faster, and more scalable. NetApp drivers for OpenStack reduce the integration burden for IT departments deploying cloud services and enable high-value services and tight SLAs.

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NetApp subject matter experts will deliver OpenStack Session talks on Manila, Cinder, customer solutions, and more. Be sure to make time for them in your show agenda.

About NetApp and OpenStack

NetApp takes a leadership role in the development of open-source cloud management alternatives such as OpenStack. Discover how you can benefit from NetApp’s commitment to OpenStack and our OpenStack customers and partners, such as:

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Sessions

Manila: An Update on OpenStack's Shared File Services Program

Monday, May 18 at 2:00PM - 2:40PM, Room 109

This presentation will provide an overview of Manila, the OpenStack File Shares Service. Manila is a community-driven project that presents the management of file shares (e.g. NFS, CIFS) as a core service to OpenStack. Manila currently works with a variety of storage platforms, as well as a reference implementation based on a Linux NFS server.

While enterprise customers are considering open source solutions such as OpenStack, many don't want to give up the level of support or integration they've come to depend on. They also don't want to deploy OpenStack on an infrastructure that is difficult to scale up or automate. So what's the solution? Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 on FlexPod provides a fully supported cloud platform that can scale.

Cinder, at its core, provides basic provisioning and management of block storage volumes to users of OpenStack clouds. However, beyond basic volumes and snapshots, there is a lot of advanced capability for cloud administrators that can be leveraged to provide value added capability to end users, as well as for managing the lifecycle of volumes and storage subsystems.

Speaker:

Jeff Applewhite, Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp

Because Data: Why does Enterprise Storage Matter for OpenStack?

Tuesday, May 19 at 4:40PM - 5:20PM, Room 221

Enterprise IT is constantly being challenged to react faster to business demands, a major factor in the Enterprise adoption of Cloud technologies. As workloads are rapidly migrating into the cloud, there are a number of critical questions about a company’s data that must be addressed. Are we compliant? Is it protected? How can the data be moved? How much does it cost? And, even, where is it physically?

Until there is a plan in place to answer these and other questions, deployment of OpenStack into production will remain challenged.

NetApp’s Sr. Director of OpenStack Cloud Solutions Jeff O’Nea moderates a panel of industry experts from Red Hat, SUSE, HP, and Intel as they discuss enterprise IT’s expectations for securing and managing their data and what the future holds for storage technology in the Private Cloud.

Hear our approach and experience in starting an OpenStack based project for building a private cloud. This talk will demonstrate that the barrier to entry into OpenStack based solutions is not high - the key is for the interested organizations to make the right technology selections and form strong partnerships with their key vendors.

Attendees will learn about the technical aspects of an OpenStack deployment using the RHEL OpenStack Platform on FlexPod converged infrastructure from Cisco and NetApp, including the logical and physical architecture and design of the solution and lessons learned during implementation.

Speakers:

Michael Bagg, Sr. Technology Specialist, TELUS Communications Inc.

Dimitar Ivanov, Manager, Technology Architecture, TELUS

Manila: Taking OpenStack Shared File Storage to the Telco Cloud

Wednesday, May 20 at 3:30PM - 4:10PM, Room 110

Manila is the shared file system service and an incubated OpenStack project since the Juno release. Manila allows tenants to manage shares (e.g., NFS exports), take snapshots, and adjust access rules - among other things.

In this talk, we will present our lessons learned during an evaluation of Manila for use in a Telco environment. Deutsche Telekom, NetApp, and SVA have established a joint qualification lab. The solution uses a fully automated open source deployment and testing framework that leverages OpenStack Tempest. Part of this presentation is validation of Manila's applicability for common use cases, its functionality, as well as the maturity of different backend implementations.

With the latest OpenStack release, NetApp continues to drive value and innovation for OpenStack storage infrastructure. Come hear how we've enhanced storage efficiency, data protection, and security with the power of OpenStack and discover the value of the value of NetApp's flexible, efficient and supported capabilities.

Speaker:

Rob Esker, Senior Product Manager for OpenStack, NetApp

Manila 101 and Use Cases

Thursday May 21 at 9:50AM - 10:30AM, Room 208/209 Theatre

Manila provides an automated, on-demand, and scalable service for delivering shared and distributed file systems via an open, standardized API developed within the OpenStack effort, but made available for usage independent of your choice of cloud ecosystem. For the first time, cloud users can self-provision and manage shared file systems as first-class objects to be leveraged by cloud applications.

Hear use cases where Manila filled a critical business gap in bringing certain workloads to OpenStack clouds and watch a short demo of the key features of the Kilo release of Manila with Netapp clustered Data ONTAP.

Attendees will leave this session with an understanding of Manila and tangible use cases where it can be leveraged as a key component of an application deployment within an OpenStack cloud.

Regardless of your background, OpenStack is a fundamental shift from the way traditional virtualization and bare-metal deployments are built and operated. Just like learning to run in a Couch-to-5k clinic, you need a coaching team to help you get from zero to hero on OpenStack. Knowing where to start is as important as knowing how to start. Attendees will get a walk through of the learning program and be given resources to spin up a demo environment on their own machines using Vagrant and VirtualBox. This will be a very interactive session to encourage attendees to get help starting their journeys to becoming OpenStack operators.

This all-star panel discussion will focus on the challenges for OpenStack storage and to get direct feedback from users and developers in the audience of their adoption of OpenStack storage. This panel may be recorded as a "Speaking in Tech" podcast which is distributed by Europe's largest tech publication, The Register.

In this enlightening session, you'll hear OpenStack object storage use cases and learn how to build the ideal OpenStack-compatible object storage infrastructure. Listen to a discussion on building open object stores with Swift on NetApp E-Series, as well as software-defined enterprise-grade object stores with NetApp StorageGRID Webscale. Discover different protocol options like S3, Swift and CDMI. And finally, hear how a customer used object storage as the primary storage tier for their legacy-now-cloud applications.

Speakers:

Ingo Fuchs, Senior Manager Solutions Marketing, NetApp

Thomson Reuters: Manila Deployment Customer Story

Thursday May 21 at 11:50AM - 12:30PM, Room 208/209 Theatre

OpenStack presents the promise of a fully functional, open standard cloud platform that can be assembled using components to address mission-critical use cases. Thomson-Reuters will share their experiences, rationale, and business objectives with their OpenStack deployment using Manila with NetApp’s technology. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how others have been able to successfully deploy OpenStack within their environments and be able to clearly see how NetApp’s storage and data management offerings were critical to their success.

Speakers:

Greg Loughmiller, Technical Marketing Engineer, NetApp

Justin Dettmann, Thomson Reuters

The Lean Cloud: Avoiding the Cloud Fat as your Apps Scale and Age

Thursday May 21 at 1:30PM - 2:10PM, Room 208/209 Theatre

Public cloud is a great option for deploying new applications quickly, especially when customer uptake is uncertain. But as metrics begin to level off, the economics of operating in a public cloud must be optimized. The next phases of an application's lifecycle are then about control, scale and efficiency — and this is when an Enterprise begins to consider a Hybrid-cloud solution.

So, what are the considerations that should be addressed when making this decision? How do we maintain the agility afforded to us by public cloud technology? How can OpenStack fulfill it’s destiny as the orchestrator of apps? Using the concept of Data Fabric, Val Bercovici will walk you though this natural evolution.

Speakers:

Val Bercovici, Cloud Czar, NetApp

Virdata: A Customer FlexPod Story

Thursday May 21 at 2:20PM - 3:00PM, Room 208/209 Theatre

With NetApp, a Virdata IoT Platform deployment can be delivered at a lower risk whilst enabling a broad spectrum of cloud SLAs by combining the power and ingenuity of OpenStack cloud management with proven data integrity and fully-developed storage provisioning, data protection, and efficiency. By leveraging the power of the NetApp® clustered Data ONTAP® operating system, the Virdata Platform excels, whether deployed in a private Cloud context on FlexPod, within a public service provider powered by Openstack, a hyperscalar such as Amazon or Softlayer, or a hybrid combination.

See how NetApp helps to deliver high-performing, efficient, and scalable storage services across the cloud ecosystem while providing the benefits of both private storage and public cloud.

Speakers:

Jon Olby, Cloud Architect, NetApp

Virdata Speaker TBD

Accelerating OpenStack Deployments with Enterprise Storage

Thursday May 21 at 3:10PM - 3:50PM, Room 208/209 Theatre

Growth in open solutions such as OpenStack will outpace the traditional Compute and Storage segments and be the predominant driver for growth in the coming years. Accelerating this growth will require a diverse set of storage solutions as deployments migrate from POC to Production and into an Enterprise Data Center. This discussion will explore the options and tools available to the IT professionals as they plan for success in an evolving technology ecosystem.

Learn about the NetApp commitment to OpenStack, understand the features of the NetApp Cinder driver and tools to support Block and Object deployments.

Speakers:

Scott Peiffer, Director of Product Management, NetApp

Matt Tangvald, E-Series Product Manager, NetApp

NetApp: Innovation for the OpenStack Community of Operators and Users

Thursday May 21 at 4:10PM - 4:50PM, Room 208/209 Theatre

NetApp was a charter member of the OpenStack Foundation, contributing its first code in 2012 and has been heavily invested in the community ever since. In this session, we’ll offer a glimpse into two areas where NetApp continues to innovate to improve the lives of operators and users of OpenStack. Anurag Palsule of NetApp’s Manageability Product Group will demonstrate how we’ve extended Cinder, Heat, and Ceilometer to offer more dynamic management of resource pools to ensure balanced utilization and more proactive alerting to potential issues. Bob Callaway of NetApp and Dan Radez of Red Hat will discuss TryStack, a free production instance of OpenStack that is available for anyone to use. They’ll discuss how both companies are collaborating with individuals who are new to OpenStack to help them learn about the features, capabilities, and potential of OpenStack for a variety of use cases.

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® OpenStack Platform and NetApp clustered Data ONTAP provide the foundation for a modern, supportable, integrated, and scalable hybrid cloud deployment. NetApp storage systems have been pre-integrated, pre-tested, and certified to work with the Red Hat OpenStack Platform to ensure an enterprise-grade hybrid cloud solution based on the OpenStack Juno platform. The Red Hat OpenStack Platform likewise includes specific integrations to expose NetApp’s Cinder block storage driver within the installation GUI. Red Hat and NetApp are together enabling enterprises to rapidly deploy OpenStack environments without the need for complex in-house design, testing, validation, and tuning. The result is a faster, streamlined deployment requiring fewer staff resources and reduced costs. The Red Hat and NetApp joint Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution incorporates enterprise features, reliability, and availability with streamlined management and predictable performance to meet even the most stringent SLAs. Do not miss this opportunity to join NetApp and Red Hat experts when they demonstrate how Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 and NetApp storage systems work together to achieve a highly-available, production quality infrastructure based on OpenStack.

Speakers

Jeff Applewhite

Technical Marketing Engineer, Cloud Solutions Group, NetApp

Jeff has an extensive background in operations, storage, high availability, and hosting large, distributed applications requiring the strictest Service Level Agreements. Jeff focuses on helping customers through architectures and solutions that utilize the unique capabilities of NetApp storage to solve real world problems. Prior to joining NetApp, Jeff worked as a developer, systems engineer, and manager of operations teams. He is an ATC on various OpenStack related projects and holds a BA from Duke University.

Nick Barcet

Director of Product Management, OpenStack, RedHat

Nick joined Red Hat in June 2014, as part of the acquisition of eNovance, where he was and still is VP of Products. Prior to that role, Nick was Ubuntu Server and Cloud Product manager at Canonical, where he participated in the definition and success of Ubuntu as a platform above and under the cloud. Nick joined the OpenStack project since its first summit in Austin and founded the Ceilometer project, now known as OpenStack Telemetry, at the Folsom summit in April 2012, to handle centralized metering on OpenStack. He has been project leading it for its first year and until it was integrated by OpenStack's technical committee. Nick was also a Director of the Board of the OpenStack Foundation in 2013. Nick has been involved in Free Software since 2000 working with Novell and Intel in various technical and management roles.

Michael Bagg

Val Bercovici

Cloud Czar, NetApp

Val is responsible for Technology Vision and Strategy of NetApp’s Cloud Portfolio. A popular spokesperson to Customers, Partners, Analysts and Media, he heads the assessment of Cloud Storage and Data Management market opportunities and brings leadership to strategy summits for Open, Multi-Vendor Cloud initiatives. As the co-developer of NetApp's pioneering Cloud GTM and Product Plans, Val plays a key role in transforming NetApp for the Cloud era.

Arthur Berezin

Arthur has great deal of experience with cloud, virtualization, infrastructure, and open source technologies working with companies of various sizes from large enterprises to start-ups. At Red Hat, Arthur focuses on making OpenStack a robust platform that helps customers solve complex business and technical challenges.

Dave Cain

Dave focuses on producing validated reference architectures that promote the benefits of NetApp storage and software into datacenter environments. Prior to joining NetApp, he spent 10 years in various roles within IBM focused on Network, Storage, and Virtualization IT infrastructure. Dave holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from North Carolina State University, and has co-authored two patents and invention disclosures in the networking field.

Bob Callaway

Bob focuses on strategies, business development activities, and reference architectures that promote the benefits of NetApp storage and software into cloud computing environments. Prior to joining NetApp, he spent over 8 years in various roles within IBM focused on application integration middleware and cloud computing. He is an ATC on various OpenStack projects, and holds the PhD degree in Computer Engineering from NC State University. He also serves as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NC State University.

NetApp: Innovation for the OpenStack Community of Operators and Users, Thursday May 21 at 4:10PM - 4:50PM, Room 208/209 Theatre

Pete Chadwick

Senior Product Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Solutions, SUSE

Pete has more than 20 years of experience at global technology organizations such as IBM, US Robotics, 3Com and Novell. At SUSE, his responsibilities include comprehensive market and business analysis required to deliver go-to-market strategies for one of SUSE’s priority business areas – cloud. Pete has worked with providers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft to bring SUSE Linux Enterprise Server to public clouds. He currently champions the company’s work with and contributions to OpenStack, resulting in the release of SUSE OpenStack Cloud. In addition to participating in the Enterprise Working Group of the OpenStack Foundation, Pete has presented at the OpenStack Summit as well as other industry events including, LinuxCon, CloudOpen, Brainshare, SUSEcon, Open Source Business Conference, Gartner Data Center Conference and Cloud Computing Expo.

Anjaneya "Reddy" Chagam

Principal Engineer, Data Center Storage Group, Intel

"Reddy" is responsible for developing Software Defined Storage architecture and technology initiatives within Intel. He has 20 years of software development, architecture and systems engineering expertise in enterprise and cloud computing environments. He joined Intel in 1995 in Technology and Manufacturing division where he was responsible for delivering automation solutions across 8 process technology generations and was instrumental in delivering IA based mission-critical manufacturing solutions. He worked with several fortune 500 companies to deliver scalable data center solutions using Intel technologies. Reddy has a bachelor's and master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering.

Sean Cohen

Principal Product Manager, Red Hat

Sean is a seasoned product manager bringing over 15 years of experience in senior engineering, global operations and services management roles in virtualization and cloud companies. He has international experience of storage virtualization products delivery and private clouds design for enterprise customer’s in various market segments in US, Europe and APAC. Sean is focused on cloud storage product management and strategy for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform cloud offering.

Aaron Delp

Technical Solutions Director, SolidFire

Aaron specializes in the creation of OpenStack, CloudStack, and VMware based cloud solutions. Prior to SolidFire, Aaron was the Senior Director of Technical Marketing for the Citrix Cloud Platforms Group where he led the generation and publishing of reference architectures, technical documentation, competitive intelligence, and field enablement content. In addition, Aaron led the Cloud Field Enablement team for VCE specializing in management, orchestration, and automation products from VMware, Cisco, EMC, and CA Technologies. In addition, Aaron led a solutions team that designed, tested, and published the configuration of Cisco Unified Communications (UC) on the VCE Vblock Platform.

Justin Dettmann

Infrastructure Architect, Thomson Reuters

With a long history with Linux and data center infrastructure, Justin has been involved in cloud technologies since 2012, beginning with CloudStack and more recently OpenStack. As Thomson Reuters has built and deployed an OpenStack private cloud, Justin has been responsible for technical architecture, the initial deployment, and selling the private cloud concept to internal customers.

Rob Esker

Senior Product Manager for OpenStack, NetApp

Rob has been involved with the OpenStack community dating to its origins in 2010. He founded NetApp’s OpenStack effort and serves as a member of the foundation’s Board of Directors. He architected the earliest OpenStack on NetApp deployments, is a frequent speaker at OpenStack Design Summits, conferences and user groups, and is an occasional ATC. His eight year tenure at NetApp has spanned from co-founder of NetApp’s field cloud architecture team, to currently leading product management for OpenStack. His charter focuses on strategy, integration and development of NetApp portfolio technologies in and around OpenStack as well as business development, organizational and process alignment for bringing the value of NetApp’s OpenStack capabilities to market.

Prior to NetApp, Rob served in a variety of roles at Apple, Inc. to serving as Technical Attaché to the CEO and the Board of Directors reporting directly to Steve Jobs.

Christian Fey

Christian areas of expertise includes the NetApp FAS Appliance Portfolio, Clustered Data and 7-Mode, scalable filesystems, storage area networks, and storage virtualization solutions. He joined SVA in 2010.

Ingo Fuchs

Senior Manager, Solutions Marketing, NetApp

Ingo is responsible for hybrid cloud solutions, including OpenStack and object storage, along with software-defined storage and enabling the data fabric.

Ingo has over 20 years of experience in the storage industry and previously to NetApp has worked for companies such as IBM, EDS, DDN, Quantum and BakBone Software. He is a published author on various storage-related topics and has been leading projects ranging from server infrastructure, high-availability, storage area networks (SAN), network-attached storage (NAS) to backup and archiving.

Dimitar Ivanov

Manager, Technology Architecture, TELUS

Dimitar supports a team of Infrastructure Designers across Canada. He is responsible for the design and deployment of mission critical computing and storage datacenter infrastructure for TELUS Business Transformation.

Greg Knieriemen

Data Systems Technology Evangelist, Hitachi

Greg is the Hitachi Data Systems Technology Evangelist and helps drive and communicate the vision and application of Hitachi Data Systems technology through various channels. Greg is also the host of the Speaking in Tech Podcast which is distributed by Europe's largest tech publication, The Register. Greg has over 15 years’ experience using, deploying and marketing enterprise IT solutions.

Marc Koderer

Senior Cloud Technologist, Deutsche Telekom

Marc is OpenStack Tempest core team member and supports the quality of OpenStack with feature development. He is also active contributor in the Telco Working Group, Cinder and Manila. At Deutsche Telekom he is a driver for the cloud initiative and tries to show how a carrier can benefit from open and free systems like OpenStack. In his role as Cloud Technologist he is working closely with architects and operator teams to find the best architecture for OpenStack deployments.

Neil Levine

Director of Product Management, Red Hat

With a background in large systems infrastructure and open-source software, Neil is responsible for Red Hat Storage's product strategy for Ceph. Neil came to Red Hat from his role as VP of product management at Inktank, acquired by Red Hat in April 2014.

Thomas Lichtenstein

Cloud Architect, NetApp

Thomas focuses on innovation, evangelization, and proof-of-concept deployments that promote the benefits of NetApp storage and software into cloud computing environments. He has a strong background in software engineering, graduated with a Master in Computer Science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and studied abroad at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh as well as Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Thomas has presented at several OpenStack events on various cloud storage topics.

Greg Loughmiller

Technical Marketing Engineer for Cloud Solution Group, NetApp

Greg’s current focus is to work with members of the NetApp technical community to identify, develop and provide solutions needed to leverage the benefits and capabilities of NetApp storage within the OpenStack ecosystem. Greg also works with NetApp customers to assist with solutions for their Openstack deployments with NetApp storage.

Greg has been with NetApp for 9 years, after spending 16 years with a telecommunication provider in the US in various Database Enterprise Architectural roles.

Alex McDonald

NetApp Industry Forums and Standards, CTO Office, NetApp

Alex joined NetApp in 2005, after more than 35 years in a variety of roles with some of the best known names in the software industry. With a background in software development, support, and a period as an independent consultant, he is now part of NetApp’s CTO Office that supports storage industry activities and promotes technology & standards based solutions, including OpenStack Cinder, Swift and Manila. Alex is currently chair of the SNIA CSI (Cloud Storage Initiative), and chair of the SNIA NFS Special Interest Group.

Jon Olby

Cloud Architect, NetApp

Jon is responsible for supporting NetApp’s Service Provider and Cloud business by providing technical and solution design leadership across the Service Provider and Cloud Program. Jon’s focus is to scope and architect “As a Service” Cloud Infrastructure solutions in order to meet the requirements of Service Providers and Enterprise. This includes leveraging NetApp’s integration capabilities into complementary technologies, where appropriate, and ensure technical and operational best practices are incorporated into the solutions. Jon was recruited into NetApp in 2010 specifically for this role.

Before joining NetApp, Jon held technical architect roles in finance, IT and telecom companies including Royal London Insurance, Hays IT and British Telecom (BT). Earlier in his career he also held Technical Product Management roles for computer telephony and data products for BT based in the UK.

Jeff O’Neal

Sr. Director, Cloud Solutions Group , NetApp

Jeff leads Cloud strategy, development and Go-to-Market. Jeff drove NetApp’s entry into the OpenStack ecosystem, defining the product offering, as well as entry into OpenStack Foundation as a charter member, nurturing OpenStack, both through funding and code contributions related to storage and data management. Jeff has made a career of leading new market/technology initiatives over the past decade, leading teams that developed NetApp’s FlexPod Converged Architecture, in partnership with Cisco, and NetApp’s Open Solution for Hadoop. Prior to joining NetApp, Jeff led the go-to-market strategy and execution for Sun Microsystems very successful SunFire T1000 introduction including the ultraSPARC T1 microprocessor introduction. He has held senior management positions with global scope in functions ranging from microprocessor product management to professional services practice management.

Melissa Palmer

Systems Engineer and Architect, NetApp

Melissa is a virtualization, converged infrastructure, and OpenStack enthusiast, and Systems Engineer at NetApp. Before NetApp she was an engineer for several very large enterprise VMware environments. She has Bachelor and Master of Engineering degrees focused in Electrical Engineering and Secure Networked Systems Design. She’s a VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 4 and 5.

As a strong advocate for community, Melissa is a VMUG member, contributor to the vBrownBag online community, and has been featured on panel discussions and podcasts for IT architecture and community programs. Melissa is the Creative Director of the Virtual Design Master program, which focuses on community members who are working towards enterprise architecture and technology certification goals. Melissa also is one of the co-hosts of a podcast called #CurrentStatus, which focuses on current trends in IT from the perspective of three women and a new guest every week.

Scott Peiffer

Director of Product Management, Hyperscale Solutions Group, NetApp

Scott's team leads Technical Marketing, Solutions Enablement with a focus on 3rd Platform, Manageability and Disaster Recovery at NetApp. He has over 20 years of experience in the storage and server markets. He has helped define, architect and implement both internal and external storage systems including DAS, RAID and SAN solutions for both consumer and enterprise markets. Scott has led Product Management, Product Marketing, Technical Marketing, Sales Enablement and Operation teams. He has an undergraduate degree in International Business with a Latin America focus, a Masters of Business Administration and holds a patent in high availability storage.

Monu Pradhan

Product Manager, OpenStack, HP

In her current role at HP, Monu is responsible for driving HP Helion OpenStack storage strategy for virtual private cloud and service provider environments. She has acquired an extensive background with storage virtualization, server virtualization and cloud strategies by working at various companies including NetApp, Veritas, Xsigo, Evergrid, Opsware and IBM.

Manju Ramanathpura

CTO for Intelligent Platforms, Hitachi Data Systems

Manju works closely with strategic clients, research communities, open source communities and various Hitachi’s internal organizations to drive continuous innovation. Before joining HDS, Manju worked in product management and engineering roles with Cisco Systems Inc., for several switching and routing products.

Gordon Stitt

Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Nebula

Gordon has extensive experience as a private/public company CEO, as a leader of marketing organizations and in product development. He co-founded two publicly traded networking companies. Prior to joining Nebula he served as President & CEO of Extreme Networks for 10 years. After he retired as CEO, he served as chairman of the board of Extreme for 5 years. Previously, he co-founded Network Peripherals where he served as Vice President, Marketing. Gordon holds a BS in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from Santa Clara University and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley.

He currently serves on the board of directors of Barracuda Networks, and previously served on the boards of SkyFire Labs and RGB Networks. He is currently chair of the industry advisory board for Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University.

Mark Sturdevant

Software Engineer, Hewlett-Packard Storage Division

Mark has been at HP since 1989 focusing on storage, data management and application management. Mark has been involved in the OpenStack Cinder and Manila projects. During Kilo, he implemented the HP 3PAR driver for Manila.

Matt Tangvald

E-Series Product Manager, NetApp

Matt has 15+ years of storage experience. He has helped architect, implemented, sell and support RAID, NAS and SAN storage system ranging from RAID on the Chip (RoC) solutions delivered in Intel platform chipsets to full external RAID enclosures. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Masters of Business Administration. He has been granted two patents.

Matt has worked at NetApp for 3 years within the E-Series Product Management organization. He currently leads the E-Series solution enablement team, focused on data protection and private cloud, including OpenStack and object storage.

Eric Wright

Technology Evangelist, Blogger, Cloud Pundit, DiscoPosse.com

Eric is a Principal Solutions Engineer and Technology Evangelist at VMTurbo, VMware vExpert, and Cisco Champion with a background in virtualization, VMware, OpenStack, Business Continuity, PowerShell scripting and systems automation in many industries including financial services, health services and engineering firms. As the author behind DiscoPosse.com, a technology and virtualization blog, Eric is also a regular contributor to community driven technology groups such as the VMUG organization in Toronto, Canada. When Eric is not working in technology, you may find him with a guitar in his hand or riding a local bike race or climbing over the obstacles on a Tough Mudder course. Eric also commits time regularly to charity bike rides and running events to help raise awareness and funding for cancer research through a number of organizations.